First UN food aid in months arrives in Sudan’s Darfur as famine looms

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Source: UN, First UN food aid in months arrives in Sudan’s Darfur as famine looms

Aid deliveries follow talks to reopen humanitarian corridors from Chad amid warnings that millions face acute hunger.

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A Sudanese woman carries a bag of food aid at the el-Riyadh camp for displaced people in el-Geneina, West Darfur [File: Ashraf Shazly/AFP]

Published On 5 Apr 20245 Apr 2024

The United Nations has begun distributing food in Sudan’s war-ravaged Darfur region for the first time in months amid warnings of impending famine caused by a yearlong war and lack of access to food aid.

The UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) said two aid convoys crossed the border from Chad in late March, carrying food and nutrition assistance for about 250,000 people for a month.